Hacking & Experiments

Sagan builds a rain detector circuit with Dave’s original Science Fair Tandy / Radio Shack 200-in-1 electronics projects kit from the 1980’s, and testing it using Dave’s first multimeter! Forum HERE Watch Sagan soldering for the first time! Podcast: Download

Follow-up to the Studio Monitor Noise video, replacing the mains power supply with a battery supply. Does the noise floor go away? Forum HERE Podcast: Download

The new official Power Over Ethernet (PoE) hat for the Raspberry Pi 3 B+ has been reported to fail with an overcurrent error when powering USB devices. Dave investigates and narrows it down until, well, something goes horribly wrong… Rpi forum Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Gav “The Mechatronics Guy” explains circular polarised light and demonstrates his physical laser cut models to help understand this concept in his quest to make a pixel mapped polarised light camera. How do 3D shutter glasses work? https://tinkerings.org/ Podcast: Download

Why do many powered studio monitor speakers have a low level audible background noise? This is an issue with many big and popular brand monitors like KRK, Yamaha, JBL, Alesis and many others Time for some investigation on the KRK Rokit 6 studio monitor speakers to track down where the …